Manchester United vs West Ham LIVE: Premier League score and result after Alejandro Garnacho double
Manchester United beat West Ham in the Premier League
Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho netted twice after Rasmus Hojlund scored on his 21st birthday as the Old Trafford side beat West Ham United 3-0 to climb above the visitors into sixth place in the Premier League on Sunday.
On the heels of a 4-3 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Thursday, Erik ten Hag’s team now have 38 points after 23 games, eight adrift of fourth spot. The Hammers are seventh with 36.
Hojlund scored in the 23rd minute when Casemiro prodded the ball forward after West Ham failed to clear a high ball. The Dane knocked the ball past a couple of defenders before firing home from the centre of the box into the bottom corner.
Hojlund, who did not score his first league goal until Dec. 26, became the youngest player in the Old Trafford team’s history to score in four consecutive Premier League appearances.
Garnacho doubled the lead in the 49th after his shot from the corner of the box took a big deflection to send substitute goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski the wrong way.
The Argentine netted his second in the 84th after Kalvin Phillips lost the ball and Scott McTominay pounced, finding Garnacho in the box.
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A cross from the right finds Soucek near the edge of the box, and his eventual shot takes a deflection off Maguire and flies towards the bottom corner. Luckily for United, the ball goes just wide of the post. Both teams have had decent chances to get ahead now, though neither has been able to take them to this point.
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BIG SAVE! Having just taken a blow to the head, Areola shakes off the effects to make a vital stop. Fernandes lets fly from 25 yards out, and his effort takes a nick off Emerson and looks to be looping into the top corner. However, Areola makes an acrobatic save to tip it away from danger.
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In clearing behind for a corner, Zouma inadvertently kicks his goalkeeper Areola in the head. The West Ham goalkeeper momentarily looks weary, though he is back on his feet.
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Following their 2-0 win at the London Stadium in December, West Ham are looking to complete their first league double over United since 2006-07. Their 1-0 victory at Old Trafford on the final day that season was also their last away league victory against the Red Devils.
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WHAT A SAVE! A Ward-Prowse corner finds Soucek, who flicks the ball on. It hits Emerson, and could have potentially wrong-footed Onana, but the United goalkeeper is up to the task as he leaps to his left and parries away from danger. That is the closest either side has come so far to getting their noses in front.
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Mainoo is the sixth-youngest player to make 10 Premier League appearances for Manchester United (18 years, 291 days), and is just one day older than Cristiano Ronaldo was on his 10th appearance in 2003.
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Bowen receives the ball in the box before trying to feed Emerson, but the pass goes awry and dribbles straight through to the waiting hands of Onana.
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United are unbeaten in their last 15 Premier League home games against West Ham (12 wins, three draws), winning each of the last three 1-0.
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United have enjoyed most of the early possession, without really testing West Ham's defence. The hosts are trying to get the ball to Rashford as often as they can.
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The hosts kick us off and we are under way at Old Trafford!
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